Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Tomb-Sweeping Day, what's your name?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, what's your name?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and outing are the two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down from ancient times to the present in China.

At this time, the vitality is booming, the yin is declining, everything is "going to the old and welcoming the new", and the earth presents a scene full of spring, which is a good time to go for a walk in the spring and sweep the graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day, who worships his ancestors, is very long. There are two statements: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10. These nearly 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day who worships his ancestors.